The Natural History of Pliny the Elder, Part 2
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The Uncertainty of the Celestial Phenomenon
Bad and wintry weather will often proceed by several days, the proper period for the advent of that season. At another time it will last longer than usual. The effects too of the changes that take place in the seasons will sometimes be felt later, and at other times earlier,. And we not unfrequently hear the remark made upon the return of fine weather, that the action of such and such a constellation is now completed. As all these phenomena depend upon certain stars, arranged and regulated in the vault of heaven, we find intervening in accordance with the movements of certain stars - themselves productive of no slight results.
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